Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tech-torial for you.
This time on doing virus scans with the Avast CloudCare anti-virus.
You want to make sure that it's working.
This is in particular the CloudCare version
You can either double click on the icon down in your system tray or you
can right click on it and tell it to open. It gives you a quick status telling you
it's protected. If there's any issue it'll have
something else other than this in white and green. We want to go to
protection and you're going to see a series of
options here that you can go through. The one in particular is checking your
virus scans but the core shields will protect you
real time. So if you look at this everything should be turned on and
in green. You can also go in here deeper through the settings to customize how
that works. If we go back to the protection you can
click on the virus scans and you have a few different types of scans.
You can go from a full scan to something more targeted where you can
choose a particular folder that you want to search for
maybe the downloads where typically things get downloaded that
are viruses and you can run a boot time scan and if there's any
updates for it this is separate from the regular updates that run on the windows
version of the program. This is set to scan during the boot up process
so there would be a link here to say update now
and in this case it's saying that there's no updates available. So I've
already had those done. So you can click on this to run on the
next pc boot and now it says that the scan will run
on the next boot. If you change your mind about that you
could cancel that. We're going to go back to virus scans up here.
So the these quick links here you can go back to the previous
go to the protection section or to the virus scan section.
So we go back there. That was the boot time, you can also do
some custom scans that will allow you to do various
types of custom scans. It's got a quick one built in
but you could go to create a new scan and choose from a series of options
giving it a name, telling if it's full, targeted, or quick.
how often you want this to do if it's on a schedule
and other advanced settings where you got the sensitivity level
and a bunch of other options that you can take your time going through and
choosing what you'd like on here. We'll cancel out there
go back to virus scans again. Here you can see
your scan history. So you can see when the scans were run and
what type of scan was done.
We'll go back to protection, and I went too far.
So I'll just click virus scans
So we'll go and ideally you might be getting
just quick scans that are done on a regular scheduled basis
so it's important to go in here check your scan history but I found that
some of these programs they don't always register the history properly.
Especially if you're clearing out
cookies and that sort of thing and it might lose the history of what you have
So we'll go in here and run a full scan and it just starts scanning
If you wanted to, if it's the end of your day and you want to
have it shut down afterwards, then you can click on this option here to
shut the computer down when it's finished scanning.
so all that scanning you can go out back to the virus can section and it
shows that it's actually running right now
we do have the boot time scan set so when we shut down after
it will run a scan there as well, and that's really good because
a lot of viruses can run in the windows or underneath the windows I should say
before the computer fully boots into the operating system
and once that boots up all the way it could be hiding itself
So a full scan such as this may not pick up on a virus
if it's running underneath the system and that's why
a boot time scan would come in really handy
So this is a good idea to run this occasionally
and it would never be scheduled because it's not going to inundate you with
extra scans it's going to frustrate you when you just want to turn on the
computer really quick and get started. So it's up to you to go in there and do
that once in a while, which is always a good idea.
other than that, in the protection there's other utilities that you may get
with this if you're on the CloudCare version which is only sold through I.T.
managed I.T. companies such as TwinBytes. You'll get a sandbox in here to play with.
You can, which is kind of funny it's a sandbox
you know children playing in the sandbox. But this is a...
really to play around and test files So if you
have an accident or get a virus or something
it doesn't really matter because it's a virtual
area that you can experiment in and if something goes wrong it doesn't
affect your actual operating system. So that's why it's
called the sandbox for you to play in. So you can also check your wireless to
see if there's any issues with that and improve the wireless
it's got real-time scanning for websites to try and prevent you from going to a
bad website by accident. Your firewall and the virus chest where
anything that it caught it will put it in there temporarily
in case you got something as a false positive and it shouldn't
have been caught then you can go in there and add that as
an exception. There's also a privacy section if you
have this added on in your package with TwinBytes we offer you everything
in one price. You're not paying extra. You can have passwords managed,
you can shred files and other free space on your computer.
Which makes it um a lot safer in case
you want to make sure something is really gone
and there's an anti-spam feature as well. So that's it pretty much
and if you have any questions about the antivirus product in particular or any
other product, please leave me a message down in the
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